Intellectual honesty

Intellectual honesty is an applied method of problem solving, characterized by an unbiased, honest attitude, which can be demonstrated in a number of different ways:

Harvard ethicist Louis M. Guenin describes the "kernel" of intellectual honesty to be "a virtuous disposition to eschew deception when given an incentive for deception."[1]

Intentionally committed fallacies in debates and reasoning are called intellectual dishonesty.

See also

References

  1. "Candor in Science", Synthese, Vol. 145, No. 2 (June 2005), p. 179.

Further reading

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